Mitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab. His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's largest coding platform for kids.

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Laura Resau is the award-winning author of nine highly acclaimed young adult and middle grade novels, including The Lightning Queen, Tree of Dreams, What the Moon Saw, Red Glass, Star in the Forest, The Queen of Water (with María Virginia Farinango), and the Notebook series.

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Mark Reps has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. Born in small-town southeastern Minnesota, he trained as a mathematician and chiropractor but never lost his love of telling or writing a good story.

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Thomas Reppetto, a former commander of detectives in the Chicago Police Department, received his doctorate from Harvard and was a professor, dean, and vice president at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

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Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Canadian author and journalist. She has worked for the Globe and Mail as a reporter, editor, and columnist. She is the author of the essay collection Shrewed and the novels Based on a True Story and What She Said: Conversations about Equality. She lives in Toronto with her family.

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Though Anne Renwick holds a PhD in biology and greatly enjoyed tormenting the overburdened undergraduates who were her students, fiction has always been her first love. Today, she writes steampunk romance, placing a new kind of biotech in the hands of mad scientists, proper young ladies, and determined villains.

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Kimmo Rentola is professor emeritus of political history at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the history of the Cold War, Soviet-Finnish relations, and Finnish and Nordic communism. How Finland Survived Stalin is his first book translated into English.

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Christopher Renstrom is the creator of Rulingplanets.com, an online astrology site based on his bestselling book Ruling Planets. He currently writes the daily horoscopes for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com. Renstrom runs Ruling Planet workshops around the country.

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David Rensin is the New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of several books, including The Mailroom, All for a Few Perfect Waves, and Devil at My Heels. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author Winter Renshaw writes stories that are sexy, conflicted, and laced with heart. Her books include the Never series, the Arrogant series, and the stand-alone novels Vegas Baby and Dark Paradise.

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Greg Renoff earned his PhD in American history from Brandeis University and is the author of The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife and two daughters.

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R. R. Reno, the editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life and serves on the board of advisers of the Edmund Burke Foundation. His books include Genesis: A Theological Commentary and Fighting the Noonday Devil. He lives with his wife in New York City.

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